Back at home

After more than 24 hours traveling I am finally back home. I am already missing my CSC team members. They all are more than colleagues to me; I prefer to call them as my friends.

And of course I already miss Bacolod, the sun and all smiling people.

The whole CSC experience in Bacolod was amazing; that is something I will remember for my whole life!

A fire in Barangay (District) 19

The last weekend there was a fire in one of the poorest areas of Bacolod; in Barangay (District) 19 which is very close to our hotel. Houses in the area are built on very light material, like pieces of wood and corrugated plate. All in all, 62 residences were destroyed and 17 people died. Candle caused the fire… People did not own too much but everything was destroyed.

We visited the place and left some rise and sardines for the victims. In addition we bought a huge amount of candies and gave those to the children playing in the street. It took couple of seconds and then the candies were gone. Not much but at least we were able to bring the smile to the children’s face.

Time to start to say Good Byes

Back to Business; on Tuesday we had the seminar day for the students in University of St. La Salle. I had a huge audience to listen my almost three hour presentation. In the room there was place for 260 people and there were not too many empty seats; I think there were almost 200 people listening. I hope that they found the topic useful!

On Wednesday we had one extra seminar day. Duke and Alina were presenting their topics at the University. Gisele and I met local business people who were not able to participate to the first seminar day and gave our presentations to them. In the afternoon I had a change to visit one of the call centers here in Bacolod. It was very interesting to see how and hear how they operate!

On Tuesday evening we had a wonderful and a bit sad farewell party at house of Mr. & Mrs. Dumancas hosted by our client BNeFIT. I have had so wonderful time here and I have had to change to get to know extraordinary people so it is not easy to say good bye.

Mrs. Loida from West Negros University

Of course once again the food was excellent; grilled pork (a whole pig), sea food paella, desert…

We prepared a slideshow with pictures to show our clients what all we have been expiring here. After watching that it was time for karaoke! People in here love to sing karaoke and also couple of people from our team had a courage to sign. It was very nice evening!

Karaoke!

The weekend at the paradise island

Imagine; the weekend at the private owned island with sun, white beaches, snorkeling, swimming, good food and boat trips to sun set just for our team none else at the island! Can you ask more?!?

We had an amazing weekend at Danjugan Island which is the paradise island! The days we spent laying at the white beaches, enjoying of the sun and swimming. By snorkeling you were able to see different kind of fishes. In the evening we had a change to have a boat trip and enjoy the sun set. Three wonderful meals a day and two snacks… Then go to sleep under mosquito net and hear the voice of the nature. Life cannot be better!

• Lying in the Sulu Sea, 3km west of Negros Occidental, Danjugan Island (1.5km by 0.5km) rises steeply to 80m and is covered in rainforest - home to a nesting pair of sea eagles, rare pigeons and doves, threatened Tabon scrubfowls and coconut crabs, fruit and insect bats and many other wildlife species that struggle to exist in themainland.


• There are five lagoons: three landlocked and two flooded at high tide and colonised by coral and reef fish species.


• Danjugan is fringed with turtle-nesting beaches and surrounded by diverse coral reefs.


• The PRRCFI received the Best Managed Reef Award last 2001 in protecting the exceptionally-rich coral reef that surrounds Danjugan Island.
  (http://www.prrcf.org/about_danjugan.html)